Above, a Republican ad running in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach television markets, in advance of Biden's appearance in Florida.

Updated at 12:59 p.m.

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Offering what sounded like a preview of vice president Joe Biden's campaign stop at a Broward condo community, U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, based the latest Republican budget plan and sought to melt it to presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Deutch called the plan from House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., "one of the worst proposals for Floridians and the middle class that we've ever seen. We may as well call the Republican budget the Ryan-Romney budget plan for all the things hey have in common."

He and Wasserman Schultz did just that throughout the rest of a telephone conference call with reporters Thursday morning.

They excoriated the "Ryan-Romeny budget plan" for promoting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans – and paying for them with cuts to programs vital to seniors.

Deutch represents Wynmoor Village, the Coconut Creek condominium community where Biden will appear Friday to, in the words of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, draw "a contrast with Republican candidates who support the GOP budget proposal that would turn Medicare into a voucher program forcing seniors to pay thousands more a year for their health care in order to give massive tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires."That was the line of attack from Wasserman Schultz and Deutch.

Deutch, who has one of the largest number of senior residents of any member of Congress, said Medicare and Social Security "may have slight structural deficiencies."

But, he said, "Medicare's finances are the strongest they've been in years thanks to the Affordable Care Act and Social Security is fully solvent for the next quarter of a century."

He said the Republicans would turn Medicare into a voucher plan for seniors, giving them a set amount of money to buy their own insurance and not fully protect them from rising health care costs. "People relying on Medicare will face a terrible choice: pay more or get less."

Wasserman Schultz, who is chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, said Florida seniors would be "gravely impacted by the Ryan-Romney budget."

"These are cuts that pull the rug out from our most vulnerable," she said. "We reject the idea that they way to deal with rising health care costs is to give seniors a voucher to buy private insurance."

She said the "Romney-Ryan budget" is "a Republican path to poverty that would pass like a tornado through America's nursing homes."

Besides running the above television ad, the Republican National Committee is countering the expected Biden message with automated robo-calls to independent seniors with this script:

Here's some additional response from Here's a comment from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus: